This year’s Anthropology in London conference invites paper and panel proposals that explore movement in the broadest sense, including movement of objects, people, ideas, cultural practices, and narratives; the structures, discourses, and practices that aid or obstruct such movements; the movement of bodies in dance, ritual, and performance; and anthropological theory and practice ‘on the move’, in step with a changing world. Core themes include, but are not limited to: More...

According to many, the brutal attack on Charlie Hebdo has been an
aggression against the secular understood as the realm where freedom of speech
is not limited by religious or ideological constraints. In painting this
picture, commentators have evoked the Age of Reason. In a society based on the
values of the Enlightenment, it has been argued, humor should be un-restrained.
But, is this the case? Is the secular really a neutral sphere? And, should
Voltairean reason be the only guideline for satire in the West? A dose of
Anthropological sensibility can help us to contextualise and to answer these
questions. More...